The title pretty much sums up why it’s been five months sense I’ve blogged. There’s been a lot I wanted to write about but I’m realizing that some stories are best told after you’ve given them time to be revised and edited in real life. But there’s something I wanted to, needed to talk about: …
Category Archives: Faith
The Thief of Joy
Last week my daughter brought home her first progress report. This is the first year she’s received numerical grades and I was somewhat surprised at my reaction. They were fine, all A’s and B’s but I was concerned about where the grades came from. I also started to wonder how her friends had done. Did …
Just Wait for It!
The last part of the job journey! Whew!!! Summer break is almost over and it has been a whirlwind. My mom convalesced with us, the kids went on vacation and to various camps, and I spent it taking care of everybody and acting like I was not completely losing it about not having a job. …
God is Everywhere
My children left today for a five day trip out of the state – without us. They are in good hands, with capable family members who love them. But that still doesn’t stop me from being a nervous wreck (it’s kind of my thing). When I texted one of my groups of sister-friends asking for …
Deadbolted and Padlocked: 6 Weeks ‘Til Summer Part 5
This is part five in a six weeks series. It finally happened. If you’ve been following this particular series of my writing, you know that there’s been a change in the midst. If you know me, like I mean know me, you know that the change has centered around my next step career-wise. I’d made …
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6 Weeks ’til Summer: Part 1
This is week one of a six weeks series. My gray eyelash is back. I noticed it last week as I was fidgeting with my contacts. I hoped and prayed that it was matter from the irritation of the pollen reeking havoc on my life; but, it wasn’t. My marker of internalized stress is back – …
Troubled Waters
I sent the image to a friend. He’s working on some motivational speaking pieces and I thought it was a great topic. He told me I should blog about it and I chuckled and thought to myself that he was using some motivational, reverse psychology on me and I filed it away as a draft. …
Through the Wrong Lens
I have a progressive eye disease that requires me to wear contact lenses to have the most precise vision. They are very tiny, a wee bit larger than a pencil eraser, and the right lens is marked with a small black dot so I don’t mix them up. Today things were a bit blurry but …
New Year’s Resolutions
Got ya! I stopped making resolutions about seven years ago. It’s not a coincidence that my boycott of this tradition began when I suffered from post-partum depression. To a very large degree, my depression was triggered by motherhood not going as planned. The perfect picture I had in my head quickly turned into a tragedy …
Bawling in the Garage
Last Monday I had a meltdown. I’m talking sitting in my car, in the garage bawling my eyes out, couldn’t think, got dressed to go to work and didn’t go type of meltdown. I had already decided that I needed to start going through therapy again to work out some issues, but I knew last …